A woman was caught on camera stealing a Sick Kids donation box from a downtown Toronto UPS store last Wednesday.

“We didn’t discover it until this past Tuesday,” said store manager Blaine Jervais. A regular customer, who tends to donate on every visit, brought attention to the theft when he asked where the box had gone.

Staff then went back to view security footage and found that the box had been taken at 12:02 p.m. on Sept. 19.

Mr. Jervais said the woman came into the store to pick up a package from Rogers, and waited to snag the box before leaving the store on Toronto St.

“She dilly-dallied in the store for about eight minutes, waiting for an opportune moment,” he said. Since she picked up the package prior to stealing the donation box, the store was able to provide her name, address and phone number to police.

“I don’t know what her situation is, but it’s pretty sad that you would have to steal from Sick Kids to pay for whatever you have to pay for,” said Mr. Jervais.

He said the box had at least $200 to $250 for the children’s hospital. Every month, the store will collect donations before cutting a cheque to the hospital.

“Hopefully we’ll get this box built up to where it was, and we’ll have another big donation this month,” said Mr. Jervais.

He said he hadn’t heard if police had made any progress on the investigation. Toronto police were unavailable for comment on Friday afternoon.